Last spring I got to design and illustrate a large chalkboard for The Silk Road Spice Merchant. I love the look of hand lettered chalkboards and have wanted to work on one for a while, I just never had the opportunity. I was delighted to get to work on one for them :) Colin and Kelci from The Silk Road Spice Merchant wanted a functional chalkboa ...
Read MoreThese sketches are from a painting that I just did for the 'It's a Jungle Out There' show. It's the first illustration that I've worked on since I had my baby last July and it was so great to get back to that.The idea behind this show is that the animals have escaped from the zoo and are loose in the city. Each participating artist got an animal an ...
Read MoreI drew these at my sketch group last week. I was researching owls before I did the sketches and was really impressed by the huge variety of different owls out there. Some are really creepy - google the great gray owl to see what I'm talking about. ©2009 Jacqueline Hudon-Verrelli ...
Read MoreA while back I was commissioned to make a couple of illustrations based on some children's poetry by Valerie Bean. These are the final sketches for those illustrations. The first poem is about a little boy who likes to squeeze noses and say "frump!" The second poem is about a little girl who blows a really big bubble and it lifts her up into the ...
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